Bob Dylan Song facts: Dylan has said that whenever he sings “All Along the Watchtower” he feels as though it’s a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, even though it was Dylan who wrote and first recorded the song.
Harmonica type: diatonic
Verse 1 -4 -4 -4 4 -4 4 -4 -5 4 -4 There must be some kind of way outta here 4 -4 -5 -4 4 -4 -4 Said the joker to the thief -4 4 -4 4 -5 -4 There's too much confusion 4 4 -5 -4 -4 -4 I can't get no relief -6 6 6 -5 -6 -4 -5 Business men, they drink my wine 4 -4 -5 -4 -4 Plowmen dig my earth -6'6 -5 6 -5 -6 -4 -5 None will level on the line 4-4-4 -5 -4 -4 -4 Nobody offered his word Verse 2 -6 6 -5 6 6 -5 -6 -4 No reason to get excited 4 -4 -4 -5 -4 -4 The thief, he kindly spoke 4 -4 -5-4 -5 -5 -5 6 There are many here among us -6 6 -5 6 -4 -4 -4 -5 Who feel that life is but a joke -6 6 -5 -6 -4 -5 -4 -5 But you and I, we've been through that 4 -4 -4 -5 -4 -4 And this is not our fate -4 4 -4 4 -4 4 -5 -4 -4 So let us stop talkin' falsely now -5 -5 -5 6 -5 -6 The hour's getting late Verse 3 7 -6 6-5 6 6 -4 -5 All a-long the watchtow-er 4 -4 -5 -4 -4 Princes kept the view -4 4 -4 4 -4 -5 -4 4 While all the women came and went -5 -5 6 -4 -5 Barefoot servants, too -6 -6 6 -5 6 6 -4 -5 Outside in the cold dis - tance -5 -5 -5 -5 -4 -5 A wildcat did growl -5 5 -5 -5 -5 6 -4 Two riders were approaching -4 -4 7 -6 6 -5 6 And the wind began to howl
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